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ENROLL AMERICA LAUNCHES OUTREACH CAMPAIGN NEXT WEEK — It's on. The coalition is kicking off its Get Covered America campaign on June 22, and it's planning a rollout blitz during the week, according to group officials. That's when it will announce more details of its plans for targeting key states and working with partner organizations to start pitching the ACA so tons of people sign up. One hint to how Enroll is staffing up: The job listings section of its websites suddenly grew a lot during the last two weeks. It's now trying to hire staffers in Florida, Texas, Arizona, Ohio, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

ARIZONA MEDICAID EXPANSION CLEARS LAST HURDLE TO PASSAGE — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer grinded out a huge win this week when she prodded Republican lawmakers to pass Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. It was a fittingly hard-fought end to a five-month battle that saw Brewer become an unlikely ally of pro-Obamacare advocates and conservatives mount a fierce but ill-fated battle to derail the effort. They’re not ready to give up though. Anti-expansion activists, led by a pair of former state lawmakers, are planning to start right away on an effort to delay expansion by placing it on the 2014 ballot for a voter referendum. http://politico.pro/175IgJZ

Happy Friday and welcome to PULSE, where’s we’re thrilled to add back-up Supreme to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s resume. The secretary joined Nancy Pelosi and others as back-up singers to Mary Wilson, an original Supreme, at a ceremony to honor Rep. John Dingell for becoming the longest-serving member of Congress. The playlist included a rousing, pantomimed rendition of “Stop in the Name of Love.” It all got PULSE thinking, if Sebelius and Pelosi formed a band, what would it be called? #SingingSecretary. http://politi.co/19xvLqB

“You can’t hurry PULSE, no, you just have to wait.”

TODAY ON POLITICO PRO

LUNG TRANSPLANT ORDER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN EXTENDED — A restraining order that put 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan and 11-year-old Javier Acosta on the adult waiting list for lung transplants will be extended until transplant policymakers have a chance to review their cases. “The restraining orders will remain in effect until the children are approved for the adult list under the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network’s new appeals process, which was agreed to at an emergency meeting Monday. If the appeals are denied, then the orders will stay in affect for seven days after the board’s denial. In either case, the restraining orders will last no longer than July 9,” Pro’s Brett Norman reports. Murnaghan has already received a successful lung transplant but Acosta is still awaiting a donor.

CHAFEE PICKS NEW HEALTH INSURANCE COMMISSIOENR — Gov. Lincoln Chafee nominated veteran anesthesiologist Kathleen Hittner to be Rhode Island’s health insurance commissioner, succeeding Christopher Koller, who is set to become president of the Milbank Memorial Fund in New York City.

REACTION TO SUPREME COURT GENE PATENT RULING MIXED — The Supreme Court won raves from the Hill for ruling that genes can’t be patented unless they’re artificially produced. Rep. Louise Slaughter, the only microbiologist in Congress, said the ruling “confirms that people — not private companies — own their genes.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a breast cancer survivor, said the ruling — which scrapped private-sector patents on cancer genes — ensures that patients will have greater access to medical opinions about their potential risk for developing cancer. “Because one company had a patent on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, I was unable to get a second opinion on the test,” Wasserman Schultz said.

— Jim Greenwood, president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, said the court’s decision to preserve patents for artificially isolated genes will ensure that companies have incentive to invest in genetic research and continuing innovating. “Today’s decision offers urgently-needed certainty for research-driven companies that rely on cDNA patents for investment in innovation,” he said. But it wasn’t all good news, he added, calling the ruling a “troubling departure” that could hamper other types of biotech research. “The United States is now the only developed country to take such a restrictive view of patent eligibility, signaling an unjustified indifference towards our global economic and scientific leadership in the life sciences,” he said.

—SCALIA: TOO MUCH SCIENCE FOR ME IN GENE PATENT RULING — When a Supreme Court justice decries the complexity and jargon of a legal dispute, you know it’s dense. That’s what Justice Antonin Scalia did when he concurred with his colleagues’ opinion that genes found in nature can’t be patented. Scalia admitted he didn’t get all the “fine details of molecular biology” in the majority opinion, and he quoted from the majority’s byzantine ruling — replete with acronyms, scientific terms and numbers. http://politico.pro/11Kmoih

FRANKS TELLS ALLIES RAPE COMMENT WAS MISCONSTRUED — Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) told social conservatives Thursday he’d been put “through a spin dryer” over his comments that pregnancies rarely result from rape. Pro-choice groups have railed against his remark, likening it to the claim by Todd Akin last year that women’s bodies can shut down potential pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape.” But Franks has sought to clarify that he intended to say pregnancies from rape that result in abortions after six months are rare. He pointed to the episode at a conference of the Faith and Freedom coalition, organized by Ralph Reed. http://politi.co/11L5XT4

HHS WORRIED ABOUT MEDICAL SCHOOL DISCRIMINATION — The Obama administration warned medical schools this week about discriminating against prospective students with hepatitis B. “The Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Education are concerned that some health-related schools may be making enrollment decisions based on an incorrect understanding of the hepatitis B virus, resulting in unlawful discrimination,” the agencies wrote. Per Pro’s Kathryn Smith: “The letter also notes new recommendations from the CDC for medical students. The CDC now advises that as long as students with chronic hepatitis B don’t perform ‘exposure-prone invasive procedures,’ they shouldn’t be restricted in their medical practice or studies.” http://politico.pro/150vQfe

PALIN: SEBELIUS IS A ‘DEATH PANEL’ — Sarah Palin says HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is a “death panel” for refusing to change organ donation policy on behalf of a dying 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis. “Sarah Murnaghan had a successful lung transplant; God bless her & docs & judge who said ‘yes’ after death panel/HHS Secy Sebelius said ‘no.’” Sebelius said it was not appropriate for her to intervene on behalf of one individual, but she placed the girl on the adult waiting list under court order. The national organization that sets transplant policy is reviewing the lung rules in the coming year and said it will allow case-by-case reviews by an expert board in the meantime.

AFP ACTIVISTS PLANNING ANTI-OBAMACARE LOBBY DAY — Anti-Obamacare activists plan to descend on Virginia’s capitol on Monday to lobby lawmakers against Medicaid expansion. Organized by Americans for Prosperity, the “Hands Off Our Healthcare” rally coincides with a meeting of a panel meant to pursue Medicaid reforms that would precede any potential expansion of the program.

NASHP’S SCHWARTZ TO GEORGETOWN — Sonya Schwartz is leaving the National Academy for State Health Policy after eight years and is joining up with Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families. Schwartz, who celebrated her birthday yesterday as she was packing up her office, had been leading NASHP’s State Refor(u)m, which tirelessly tracks health reform implementation around the country. She starts at CCF on July 1.

CALIFORNIA INSURANCE COMMISSIONER SEEKS BLUE CROSS EXCHANGE EXCLUSION — California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones says Anthem Blue Cross of California, as well as Anthem Blue Cross Life and Health Insurance Co., should be excluded from the state’s small-business health insurance exchange. He argues the company, the largest for-profit insurer in the state market, has “engaged in a pattern of excessive and unjustifiable rate increases for its small-employer customers.” An Anthem spokesman said in a statement that the rate increases are representative of the economic pressures facing the health insurance industry. The spokesman also said Anthem is just one of two statewide insurers selected to participate on the exchange.

SENATORS INTRODUCE HEALTH WORKFORCE BILL — Sens. Jack Reed (D-Del.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) filed legislation Thursday they say would address workforce shortages in the nation’s health system. The bill would provide matching funds to states that take action on workforce shortages, offers mentors for medical students interested in primary care and support grants to medical schools that focus on patient-centered medical homes and other growing health care disciplines.

OBAMA SIGNS ANIMAL DRUG USER FEE BILL — The measure, “the Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Reauthorization Act of 2013,” was introduced in March and flew through both chamber, passing the Senate by unanimous consent and the House on a 390-12 vote.

PULSE LYRICS:

Monday: Lucy Schwartz, “Boomerang”

Tuesday: Gnarls Barkley, “Crazy”

Wednesday: Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven”

Thursday: Alanis Morissette, “Ironic”

Friday: The Supremes, “You Can’t Hurry Love”

WHAT WE’RE READING, by Kathryn Smith

The FDA is warning manufacturers and hospitals about computer viruses that can affect medical devices — and showing the security problems that can arise in the push to digitize medical care, The Wall Street Journal reports. http://on.wsj.com/11JUKls

After Anthony Weiner garnered attention Thursday when he was quoted as saying he coined the term “Obamacare,” a spokeswoman clarified to The New York Times that he meant he wasn’t the first person to ever use it, but rather the first person on the left to use it proudly. http://nyti.ms/197bjtL

The AP notes that for Sarah Murnaghan — the ten-year-old with cystic fibrosis at the center of a national conversation about lung transplant policy — a transplant can help her to live longer, but isn’t a cure. http://apne.ws/11LC0lC

Sen. Barbara Boxer says she’ll push for the immigration bill to include $250 million to pay for the health costs of those seeking citizenship and shorten the amount of time in which they’d become eligible for safety net programs, the L.A. Times reports. http://lat.ms/13IuZAt

Reuters reports that in some states, small insurers will play a big role in exchanges — because they’re the only insurer that’s showed up to sell plans on them. http://reut.rs/196x2lw

On WebMD, Lisa Zamosky lists the types of income that count toward eligibility for tax credits under the health care law. http://bit.ly/13FqwjD

In an opinion piece in Roll Call, Reps. Ander Crenshaw and Nita Lowey argue the United States could better invest its global health funding and discuss their resolution to better train and support health workers across the globe. http://bit.ly/18Dq8aM

One man survived when he ingested a massive amount of soy sauce, per the Journal of Emergency Medicine — but the stuff can kill you if you eat that much of it, NPR’s Shots Blog warns. http://n.pr/17L5DYL

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